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What's the message youth hear?
___By Ferrell Foster
___Texas Baptist Communications
___ARLINGTON--Despite their best intentions, Christians are sending the wrong message in the way they do youth evangelism today, according to Mark Matlock, president of WisdomWorks Ministries in Irving.
___Matlock led a small-group session at the Youth Ministry Conclave Nov. 9-11 at the Arlington Convention Center.
___"We need to change the deep structure of and strategy of evangelism, not just its style," Matlock said. "It's not just enough to take a 'Four Spiritual Laws' tract, put a bunch of cool, edgy graphics on it and say, 'Hey, this is hip; this is now; this is on the cutting edge.'"
___What teenagers need, he said, is more doctrinal teaching.
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Dallas research shows personal
invitation most effective outreach
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___DALLAS--The most-effective means of getting an unchurched person to attend church is a personal invitation from a friend, according to research done in Dallas by evangelical pollster George Barna.
___But before the unchurched person actually attends church, he or she may have received multiple personal invitations, data from the Barna Research Group also notes.
___Barna's researchers recently took the pulse of the unchurched population in Northeast Dallas on behalf of a Baptist General Convention of Texas congregation engaged in a strategic planning process.
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